Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and nearly 200 other Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficienncy (DOGE) employees be removed from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
“Your efforts to dismantle the CFPB are dangerous, and we will fight them at every turn,” the Democrats wrote in their Tuesday letter addressed to Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Budget Management and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.
“We ask that you remove Mr. Musk’s operatives from the CFPB, restore all internal and external systems and operations, and allow the CFPB to continue to do its job of protecting American consumers,” the Democrats said.
The letter was signed by 46 Democratic senators and 143 Democratic members of the House.
The Democrats charged Musk and President Trump with seeking to dismantle the consumer protection bureau, which Warren helped create and has long been a GOP target.
“Dismantling this law enforcement agency has long been a priority of the big financial institutions it was created to regulate, and this effort to seize control of the CFPB’s inner workings is the clearest example yet that President Trump is willing to reward the billionaires who backed him, even at the expense of ordinary Americans,” the Democrats wrote.
Democrats have openly raised concerns with Musk reviewing government records as a non-elected official and have protested stark changes to financial regulations and standards proposed by the Trump administration.
